NATIVE Gold on Quartz

$4,500.00

$40.00 shipping
Seller offers an extended return window of up to 30 days
Ships from USA

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Tucson, Arizona, USA

7,572 for sale·132 sold

An excellent and fabulously rich small cabinet specimen of Native Gold from Nevada, USA. Sheets of leaf Native Gold almost entirely cover a thin 6.5 x 5.0 cm plate of creamy white Quartz matrix. Many of the sheets attain approximately 2 cm in length forming a continuous coverage of Native Gold, with a texture of crisp golden dried autumn leaves. The lustre of the sheets varies from bright lustrous golden metallic to frosted buttery-yellow with a matt finish. Under magnification the leaf surfaces have minute crystal growth developments in the form of multiple arrays of equilateral triangles, it is quite spectacular when studied closely. This is a rich, large, highly displayable Native Gold from Nevada, and one packed with crystallographic interest. The only possible drawback is the lack of precise provenance, but for aesthetics you can't go far wrong.